Coeur de Vetiver Sacre L Artisan Parfumeur for women and men

This perfume smells like it says in its description, all the things youd find in an offering to the gods. Its very sweet anf fruity and certainly has some nice warm spices in it but for me i find it overly sweet and fruity and a bit overpowering. However quite alot of fragrances seem to strong on my skin so it might be perfect for someone who has the right chemistry, but i would certainly try this out before buying!

This is a nice vetiver, there's alot of nice notes, it stays close to the skin and isn't obnoxious. . This is what I wish Dzongkha smelled like...why? Because I have 50 mls of it and I cant stand it. This is sort of similar, but just way better on my skin.

Unfortunately I have had to draw the conclusion that vetiver tends to give me a headache; Coeur De Vetiver Sacre certainly does. It's so dark, so heavy, so overwhelming.

Having said that this is very true to vetiver oil so you might love it for that alone. There is a hint of greeness (from the tea?). Excellent sillage but poor staying power on my skin. I should think not for the faint of heart!

This one Opens up with a light peach aroma that disappears in a twinkling of an eye , giving space to pepper followed by an herbal tone counterbalanced by delicate aroma of roses and guaiac wood, thus giving the fragrance a semi-sweet aroma.

Then, after 20 minutes, the tea kicks in followed by castoreum, giving this fragrance a complete different smell from the top notes.

Interesting fragrance, but you might wanna sample it out before a blind buy.

hmmm i'm still figure out this scent - it's very complex -deffinitely unisex (whatever it means). You can smell so many ingridients in here... In my opinion this is very good perfumery work by Karine Vinchon. It's sweet, bitter, woody - many different phases. Only minus - it could last longer.

A hard-edged, bitter, austere, herbal mixture of aggressive, peppery spices in a similar style to Malle's French Lover and the Ormande Jayne masculines. A new-age, pepper-laden fragrance, hard to love.

Smoky and dark yet not dense. Coeur de Vetiver Sacre starts out with clean, spicy herbal notes, peppered with dark, rich fruit. Coriander and tarragon are prominent, but well balanced with an obvious rose and cedar, much like a rosewood accord.

Osmanthus is beautiful in this too delivering a smoky floral and fleshy texture and complementing the spiky herb accent.

The drydown is a dark green, musky animalic wood--rooty, earthy, softly sweet with a beautiful depth and fullness. It very much feels alive with fresh forestry; very warm, animated and intriguing.

I can see this also working well for a man.

I get an opening similar to Kterhark - to me it smells most similar to a muted "Constant Comment" tea - oranges, black tea, bergamot, spices.

The hue of the opening is a golden orange with hints of brown, and it is very pleasant. Soon, some fruits join the mix, including candied ginger and the dates, and the iris manifests as a violet note. I personally love the transition into the heart.

On my skin, the violets move to the fore in the heart, along with the white cedar (a camphorous/bright and sparkling woody note). The tea is still present but subdued and in the background. At this point it smells like a more modern, woodier version of Grey Flannel with a glass of warm steaming tea on the side. It is somehow warm, woody, and aromatic and yet velvety soft - I believe the castoreum is utilized to round the edges because I detect virtually no trace of it otherwise.

There is a hint of vetiver present throughout, but it's a heavily fractionated vetiver - I suppose this is why the fragrance is named the "heart" of vetiver because it smells like the core essence of vetiver without the ancillary notes (i.e soil, smoke, etc).

The dry down is smooth and light and yet still bright and uplifting. The whole scent has this sort of radiant glow about it. The white cedar persists for a long time providing this camphorous glow throughout, and in the far dry down I even pick up a bit of a eucalyptus like note as the camphorous wood joins a green note that emerges from somewhere (perhaps it is the tarragon? Tarragon is rather green and lasts forever!).

A very interesting scent that I still don't fully understand after a couple of wearings. In some ways it seems linear - even the opening to heart shift is fairly subtle thanks to the watercolor like way the notes are rendered - and yet there is a constant and subtle shifting of the notes one can detect all throughout the dry down.

Warm, soft, radiant, casual and very peaceful. A very nice scent. Just don't go into it expecting it to be vetiver prominent and I think you'll be pleased.

I recently recieved a sample of this while visiting Barney's in San Francisco. I wore it over a two day period and here are my thoughts:

Opening was dark and earthy, and on me the black tea came through. But it wasn't the typical dry, raspy tea note, but one mixed with berries and fruits. This was my favorite phase, it's just like going to a tea store and testing all the top shelf black tea mixes.

The middle section sweetened up a bit, and this is when I thought 'hmm'. You can see that there are a lot of ingredients here, and I felt like they were competing with each other. Sometimes when I smell a perfume my nose twitches and I get a jarring sensation, this is what happened around the 1 1/2 hour mark.

I wore it a second time to see if I would get the same results, and I did. If this perfume faded out before the two hour mark I would say it was 5 stars, but as it transitions to the drydown it skids off track a bit.